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23 Jan 2016, 1:22 pm

I cannot speak for the US.

I can say that, in the UK, there would be homeless people whether or not we took refugees (last I heard, we're not taking many at all from Syria). It is not a practical matter, but one of political will. The UK government does not care that some of its citizens are homeless or hungry - in some cases, it has acted to make its citizens homeless and hungry - except where they are a social nuisance.


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23 Jan 2016, 1:41 pm

I hope Trump gets banned from all sorts of places, including Canada, the UK, Japan, the entire damn European Union... Maybe THEN he'll know what it would feel like for all the Mexicans and Muslims that would be prevented from entering the US under his hypothetical laws.


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23 Jan 2016, 2:08 pm

An attack on our First Amendment Rights is followed by an attack on our Second Amendment Rights, from people who have neither.

The problems of Syria will not be solved by taking a few refugees, the money would be better spent supporting people in Syria.

Key to this would be self elected morally superior western powers, reliving their lost glory days by destroying weak countries, and supplying arms to terrorists, quit making the problems worse.

It is not about Trump saying he would do background checks before allowing people in, it is about him saying he will totally destroy ISIS.



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23 Jan 2016, 3:16 pm

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We did not have Empires, occupy other people's countries for hundreds of years, selling protection and opium.

Besides, we have some remedial work to do, explaining that overthrowing the government by violence, and replacing the legal code by force, are not acceptable religious practices.
Also, tampering with our free and fair domestic elections should earn a lifetime ban from coming here, to any country that does.

Do we care about who is the Prime Minister of the Failed Empire Theme Park and Beer Museum?


The US does actually have an Empire,albeit on a smaller scale - Puerto Rico,Guam,Mariana,Samoa,Virgin Islands.
You have also occupied the following countries,whether via military or CIA and in some cases intervened in
election processes,mostly to support dictators or anti-communists :

Mexico,Nicaragua,Cuba,Phillippines,Hawaii,Honduras,Panama,Dominican Republic,Korea,Iran,Congo,Laos,Brazil,
Vietnam,Indonesia,Cambodia,Chile,Angola,Afghanistan,Iraq.

I'm not saying Britain's record compares favourably but the idea that either of our countries are paragons of virtue
is slightly self-delusional.


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23 Jan 2016, 3:18 pm

Oh, do stop playing silly buggers.

In what way have these rights been attacked? They apply only in regard to the actions of the US government. Trumps right to free speech is no more under attack were he banned from the UK for what he's said than his gun rights would be attacked if, on visiting the UK, he was told he can't bring his guns with him.

Some people in the UK put together a petition calling for Trump to be banned from the UK, which is obviously at least in part an ironic response to his own remarks about banning certain groups from the US. This in no way affects his free speech under the first amendment, but rather a consequential response to things he's said.

And then I brought up an argument commonly wheeled out in defense of gun ownership when a gun owner commits acts of mass violence, and applied it to Muslims and/or undocumented refugees. That is, that despicable acts by the few should not lead us to infringe the human rights of the many. How is this an attack on the second amendment? Unless you think despicable acts commited by a few members of a group should lead to removal of rights from the whole of that group. But that's you, not me.

If the US can find Communists and Anarchists - and, as you request, Muslims - to be detrimental to the way of life under the US constitution, so the UK government can find Trump's presence to be so to life in the UK and ban him (of course, they haven't, and have expressed no desire to do so).

Trump is largely a laughing stock in the UK (again, his name is a slang term for 'fart', and half the time his face looks, as Charlie Brooker put it, like someone in the middle of a difficult bowel movement) and has made himself unpopular with many people over his actions and words in Scotland. That's the background to this petition.

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It is not about Trump saying he would do background checks before allowing people in, it is about him saying he will totally destroy ISIS.


Well, that shut me up. I'm surprised no-one else has thought of that yet.


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23 Jan 2016, 3:34 pm

Who attacked your First Amendment rights?

The jurisdiction of the First Amendment is the US. Non-citizens don't have rights of the jurisdiction.

So far the only people having a "hissy fit" are those responding to this. Storm in a teacup.

You have just as many SJWs asking for similar stupid things.

Banning orders, be they in the US or UK, have nothing to do with First Amendment, as they don't apply to citizens.

I have met people who were denied entry the US due to their alleged political beliefs. At the height of the cold war this was not that uncommon.

The effectively did it to Charlie Chaplin in the 50s.

This is the country that brought you COINTELPRO and the McCarthy witch trials.

In fairness there are examples of similar in the UK such as the Metropolitan Police Service's Special Demonstration Squad which carried on operating till the 2008 and had ties to Mi5. This is despite the fact that investigating "subversion" was effectively banned by the Security Service Act 1989.

The point is the rights can't just exist on paper. Judge a country on its record. So people can bang on about the Constitution till the cows come home, it doesn't mean jot if it is not enforced.



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23 Jan 2016, 3:47 pm

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You have also occupied the following countries,whether via military or CIA and in some cases intervened in
election processes,mostly to support dictators or anti-communists :

Mexico,Nicaragua,Cuba,Phillippines,Hawaii,Honduras,Panama,Dominican Republic,Korea,Iran,Congo,Laos,Brazil,
Vietnam,Indonesia,Cambodia,Chile,Angola,Afghanistan,Iraq.


I lived in Angola during the civil war in the 90s. The proxy war between USSR and US prolonged the war by at least a decade. 500,000 civilians were killed. In the failed 1992 election year alone 120,000 people were killed.

It took the US so long to work out the Savimbi was not a good guy. It should have been obvious from the start.



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23 Jan 2016, 4:02 pm

pluto wrote:
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We did not have Empires, occupy other people's countries for hundreds of years, selling protection and opium.

Besides, we have some remedial work to do, explaining that overthrowing the government by violence, and replacing the legal code by force, are not acceptable religious practices.
Also, tampering with our free and fair domestic elections should earn a lifetime ban from coming here, to any country that does.

Do we care about who is the Prime Minister of the Failed Empire Theme Park and Beer Museum?


The US does actually have an Empire,albeit on a smaller scale - Puerto Rico,Guam,Mariana,Samoa,Virgin Islands.
You have also occupied the following countries,whether via military or CIA and in some cases intervened in
election processes,mostly to support dictators or anti-communists :

Mexico,Nicaragua,Cuba,Phillippines,Hawaii,Honduras,Panama,Dominican Republic,Korea,Iran,Congo,Laos,Brazil,
Vietnam,Indonesia,Cambodia,Chile,Angola,Afghanistan,Iraq.

I'm not saying Britain's record compares favourably but the idea that either of our countries are paragons of virtue
is slightly self-delusional.


We are a long way past slightly self-delusional. I am still protesting Farley Mowat being refused entry to the United States from Canada, because in, People of the Deer, he was seen as being sympathetic to First Nations.

Ban Trump, welcome home Jihadi John! MI5 has many agents in ISIS, and Trump is going to kill them all.



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23 Jan 2016, 4:19 pm

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Ban Trump, welcome home Jihadi John! MI5 has many agents in ISIS, and Trump is going to kill them all.


Mi5 is a domestic security force.

Security services don't tend to have agents they have officers and handlers. They run agents and they aren't in the organisation for obvious security reasons.

CIA or Mi6 aren't going to just walk into a group like ISIS, it doesn't work like that.

The most helpful security service in terms of infiltrating groups like former Baathist and Sunni terrorist groups in Iraq is the Kurdish security services. They have set up extensive networks.

The Kurds were mostly responsible for tracking down Saddam Hussein.



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25 Jan 2016, 12:37 pm

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It would be a dumb idea to ban him.

- For the time being, it will only further solidify the far right's approval of him.

- In the very unlikely event that he does become POTUS they will have pre-packed adversary of thier own making to deal with. Sure, he'll say let bygones be bygones in front of the camera but unofficially he'll carry the grudge for the next 4-8 years.


It's not as unlikely as you think. And far more likely than Uncle Ben Carson or Teddy Cruz getting elected POTUS!

Trump is a rabble rouser. He really isn't gonna be as bad as naysayers and the left seems to think. He says outrageous things to get attention and put himself in the spotlight ant it's working. In more ways than one, Trump is very much like Ronald Reagan.



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25 Jan 2016, 1:20 pm

This is quite amusing...a group of Englishmen telling US we shouldn't be offended at their actions....as though THEY should be the ones to tell us how we should behave. This is somehow a typical English attitude...as though we've been made the colony and are in need of their superior direction. But start to bring up how they starved the Irish or slaughtered folks in India while pushing heroin, then suddenly memories fade and moral superiority is saved.

To be fair there are some people who immediately "fess up" to their heir's dastardly deeds but insist in trying to take the moral high ground, while thousands are shut out and congregate at the French end of the "chunnel" begging, and sometimes dying for admittance (at least according to our TV) and at the same time tell us Donald Trump is inhumane because he suggests stopping the open flow of Muslims to our country, and then in fine grand manner suggesting THEY will say when we will be allowed to say we are offended. Sorry folks, stop whining, and take your fair share of the world's refugees.

I understand there are only about 117,161 refugees in England.....that seems like a very small number for a country the size of England. Perhaps counting Scotland, Wales, etc. there must be more (maybe WE should be counting Canada, etc. as well)? What I found online was: "In total, 3,261,561 refugees came to the United States from 1975 until 2015" and this does not include the 12 to 20 million economic refugees from all over the world (mostly Mexico) which we presently host. But I'm sure there's a good reason why England has shirked it's duty.



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25 Jan 2016, 2:23 pm

Weird, isn't it? It's almost as though members from the UK who post in this thread have no actual legislative power in the running of the UK.

It's also almost as though the people from the UK who post here do not necessarily endorse their government's attitude to and treatment of refugees, and perhaps might be involved in campaigns against this attitude and treatment.

It's further almost as though what Trump has said on the matter of immigration and refugees and Muslims may be criticised on its own terms, without having to come from a place of historical purity or a moral high ground.

I have not seen any attempt at a moral high ground in this thread. Could you quote such?


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25 Jan 2016, 7:14 pm

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Weird, isn't it? It's almost as though members from the UK who post in this thread have no actual legislative power in the running of the UK.

It's also almost as though the people from the UK who post here do not necessarily endorse their government's attitude to and treatment of refugees, and perhaps might be involved in campaigns against this attitude and treatment.

It's further almost as though what Trump has said on the matter of immigration and refugees and Muslims may be criticised on its own terms, without having to come from a place of historical purity or a moral high ground.

I have not seen any attempt at a moral high ground in this thread. Could you quote such?


"In what way have these rights been attacked? They apply only in regard to the actions of the US government. Trumps right to free speech is no more under attack were he banned from the UK for what he's said..."

Except, in this country (yours too?), unless you're preaching armed sedition (or some such), the United States will not ban you from entry. We feel the mere farce of Parliamentary discussion as though this were a serious manner is offensive. How could you (we) know this watching TV, movies, and online chats? We can't, which means sometimes friction develops between cultures (thank goodness we don't need to bomb each other).

So, unless someone has a major change of heart Trump's not to be banned, so everyone happy? I know I am.



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25 Jan 2016, 7:17 pm

The Rump is nowhere near the worst we amuuricans have to offer the world. there's always cruz.



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25 Jan 2016, 7:21 pm

Until I heard that^^



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25 Jan 2016, 7:43 pm

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Weird, isn't it? It's almost as though members from the UK who post in this thread have no actual legislative power in the running of the UK.

It's also almost as though the people from the UK who post here do not necessarily endorse their government's attitude to and treatment of refugees, and perhaps might be involved in campaigns against this attitude and treatment.

It's further almost as though what Trump has said on the matter of immigration and refugees and Muslims may be criticised on its own terms, without having to come from a place of historical purity or a moral high ground.

I have not seen any attempt at a moral high ground in this thread. Could you quote such?


"In what way have these rights been attacked? They apply only in regard to the actions of the US government. Trumps right to free speech is no more under attack were he banned from the UK for what he's said..."

Except, in this country (yours too?), unless you're preaching armed sedition (or some such), the United States will not ban you from entry. We feel the mere farce of Parliamentary discussion as though this were a serious manner is offensive. How could you (we) know this watching TV, movies, and online chats? We can't, which means sometimes friction develops between cultures (thank goodness we don't need to bomb each other).

So, unless someone has a major change of heart Trump's not to be banned, so everyone happy? I know I am.


That bit in quote marks - was that meant to be a 'moral high ground' thing? That was in response to your saying Trump's First Amendment rights were being attacked. The First Amendment is only in regard to the US government. Every country in the world other than the US could ban Trump from entering and indeed order a blanket ban on reporting of what he's said - his First Amendment rights would still not be affected. Do you see?

And it is a serious matter. Trump talks an awful lot of s**t, and could well end up POTUS. Some of us here in the 51st state - I live in Wales - are a bit anxious about that.

From the article the OP cites and links to:

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Parliamentary power, however, isn't required to impose the "persona non grata" label. Home Secretary Theresa May can ban anyone who's been convicted of a crime and sent to prison or has broken immigration rules. If they are coming from outside the European Economic Area (the EU plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway), she can ban them if she considers their presence in the UK to be nonconducive to the public good.

In 2011, the U.S. pastor Terry Jones, who planned a Quran-burning protest, was barred on those grounds. Others who have been barred include Hamas MP Yunis Al-Astal, Jewish extremist Mike Guzovsky and ex-Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Stephen "Don" Black.

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A petition to ban Trump was started by Suzanne Kelly, a freelance journalist in Aberdeen, Scotland, where Trump owns a nearby golf course and is a divisive figure. She was angry over Trump's call to ban Muslims from entering the United States. Kelly's petition clearly hit a nerve, as it quickly gained enough signatures to be put forward as a topic of debate in Parliament. More than 575,000 people have signed it.

The debate is nonbinding, though. No vote of any kind will be held, so there will be no substantive result. In fact, opposition lawmaker Paul Flynn, who's leading the debate, thinks a ban could be counterproductive, as it could make Trump seem unfairly victimized and boost him in the eyes of Americans.

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There's no sign the home secretary will ban Trump, but that doesn't mean she agrees with him. She has said his remarks in relation to Muslims are divisive, unhelpful and wrong, but the government has also said that exclusion powers are very serious and are not to be used lightly.

Prime Minister David Cameron doesn't support the ban, even though he called Trump's proposal to keep Muslims out of the United States "divisive, stupid and wrong." For good measure, he added, "If he came to visit our country, I think he would unite us all against him."


http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/18/polit ... ngdom-ban/


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